{"id":34120,"date":"2016-10-07T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=34120"},"modified":"2016-10-07T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T17:18:22","slug":"our-lady-of-the-rosary-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/our-lady-of-the-rosary-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of the Rosary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Our-Lady-of-the-Rosary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34121 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Our-Lady-of-the-Rosary-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"our-lady-of-the-rosary\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Our-Lady-of-the-Rosary-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Our-Lady-of-the-Rosary-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Our-Lady-of-the-Rosary-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Our-Lady-of-the-Rosary.jpg 886w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety , of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for the work of the redemptive Incarnation which began in her virginal womb. With the Rosary, the Christian people sits at the school of Mary and is led to contemplate the beauty on the face of Christ and to experience the depths of his love&#8221; (Rosarium Virginis Mariae, 1).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>St. Josemaria Escriva said, \u201cThe Rosary is a prayer very pleasing to our Lady, which has been part of the life of Catholics for many centuries. At the same time, it is a meditation on the mysteries of the life of our Lord and his Mother.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Therefore, I recommend it with all my heart, also as a prayer that can be done as a family, although you shouldn\u2019t force your young children to pray it . . . if they want to join the others, fine; if not, let them be, and even<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">tually they will come. It has to be something voluntary&#8221; (<\/span>Notes, November 17, 1972).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety , of which it can be said to be a compendium. It is an echo of the prayer of Mary, her perennial Magnificat for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/our-lady-of-the-rosary-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Lady of the Rosary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[32088,32205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34137,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34120\/revisions\/34137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}